Give Richard Cordray an Up-or-Down Vote

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is working to level the playing field for working families and stop the tricks and traps of the credit card, mortgage and student loan industry.

But Republicans and much of the financial industry have done everything they can to keep the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s director, Richard Cordray, from being confirmed.

For two years, they’ve held his vote hostage unless the Senate would agree to weaken the agency and limit its ability to hold the big banks and credit card companies accountable. They don’t want to see strong enforcement of our laws, plain and simple.